Wah Ching

Wah Ching is a Chinese-American triad society that was founded in San Francisco, California during the 1960s. Wah Ching was composed mostly of young men, and Triad member clothing varied from business attire to casual clothing, making it hard for authorities to identify gang members. The gang controlled most of the criminal vices throughout the San Francisco and Los Angeles Asian-American communities, and its rivalry with the Joe Boys gang led to the Joe Boys killing 5 civilians and injuring 11 more in an attack on the Golden Dragon Restaurant in San Francisco in 1977 in a failed attempt to attack the Wah Ching gang. The gang later developed rivalries with the Latin Kings, Wo Hop To, the Crips, the Asian Boyz, the Jackson Street Boys, the Black Dragons, and the Four Seas Gang.